Reporters Without Borders and the International Freedom of Expression Exchange Three weeks after the earthquake, the Haitian press has just had its first serious run-in with the US military. Homère Cardichon, a photographer working for the daily “Le Nouvelliste”, had his camera confiscated by US marines on 3 February 2010 while covering a demonstration by disgruntled residents outside the US embassy in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Tabarre. RSF urges culture and communications minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn-Lassègue to demand an explanation from the US military authorities. “Six marines came up and surrounded me,” Cardichon told RSF. “Then they took my camera in my opened work bag and left with it. An hour later, one of them came back and photographed me. Then he returned my camera to me. I saw that the soldiers had erased some of the photos.” There is growing […]

Reporters Without Borders, December 12, 2007 HAITI TWO GANG MEMBERS GET LIFE FOR JOURNALIST’S MURDER, A THIRD IS ACQUITTED Reporters Without Borders hails the outcome of a two-day trial before a court of assizes in the southern town of Petit-Go�ve in which two members of a local militia known as Domi nan Bwa were yesterday given life sentences for the murder of Radio Echo 2000 journalist Brignol Lindor on 3 December 2001. Of the two other alleged militia members on trial, one was acquitted because of mistaken identity and the other got off on a technicality, because he was identified by the wrong first name. Reporters Without Borders regards this as an indication of shortcomings in the preparation of the trial. Six other members of the militia are due to be tried, but have not yet been arrested. “The […]